Plan of Funerary Landscape at Pompeii's Porta Stabia.

Plan of the funerary landscape at Pompeii's Porta
Stabia, after Emmerson 2010, updated for later finds.

Emmerson suggests slightly differing locations
for some tombs around Porta Stabia than our main Stefani 1998 based tombs plan.

Use this plan of the tombs
near the Pompeii Stabian Gate or
Porta Stabia to access the pompeiiinpictures photographs.

Click on the letters of the plan or the links below for the information and pictures of those
tombs.

According to Emmerson, as one of
Pompeii's most heavily trafficked gates, the Porta Stabia must have been
a desirable and high-status location for burial, and the roads around it
must have been lined with densely packed tombs.

In 2010, four tombs stood outside the
Porta Stabia: the two well-known semicircular benches (schola tombs) just
outside the gate, and two lesser-known tomb podia located to the south,
hidden behind an embankment and concealed by overgrowth.

This situation does not reflect the
ancient reality. This article repopulates the burial landscape around the
Porta Stabia by examining the standing tombs as well as the excavation
reports of tombs that were reburied following their discovery, concluding
that the extensive necropolis around the Porta Stabia is not something that
must be imagined; rather, it is well documented and worthy of a place in
future scholarship on Pompeian funerary culture.